Cheering picspam meme

[vilakins]

Meme from snowgrouse and entropy_house: Post a 'happy' picture, size less than 40kb, in your LJ without a cut-tag to cheer people up.

Cheetahs!



This is from yesterday's paper: animal trainer Annemieke Timmermans with 'teenage' cheetahs Charlie and Delta (I assume earlier cubs were Alpha and Bravo) at Wellington Zoo. Visitors can accompany the hand-reared cheetahs around the grounds with their trainer, then spend time with them in an encounter area where they can touch the cats. If I lived down there, I'd so be at the zoo this weekend.

They were on the news earlier this week, when they were taken by car (sitting on the seats like dogs) to a hotel and walked around the lobby and into a convention. I love cheetahs. They're beautiful, social animals who can be tamed and trained like lions, and they're the only big cats who purr. They also do a very weird high-pitched whistle.

Another, smaller pic under the cut, but not of cheetahs. It's from today's paper: Montgomery Burns standing for Prime Minister!



Someone pasted Montgomery Burns's head onto the National Party election hoardings, yay, around Auckland overnight. For National, read Conservative or Republican. Each hoarding shows the local candidate and party leader Don Brash whom Burns would support: the bastard is threatening to cancel our nuclear-free policy. So it's both funny and pertinent. Eeeeeexcellent!

Comments

[hafren.livejournal.com]

The pussies are lovely!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

They are! I want one. I suspect an Abyssinian would be a more practical size though. :-P

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Awww, kitties! :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Aren't they lovely? I want to ruffle their fur and scritch between their ears. Hee. Such a dignified Delta on the right.

purr

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

Imagine the volume of the purr!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

They'd have to be loud to outdo my Sigi; I used to have to turn the TV up when she was sitting on my lap. I love cat purrs. They make me feel all warm and happy, esp when Claudia purrs in my ear. How are your kittens?

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

They look a bit affronted by the camera!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yes, Charlie looks it. :-)

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Purrrrrrrr! *ponders moving onto big cat wrangling next*

I thought there were other big cats that purred, that there was some recent study not made on captive animals, but buggered if I can find it now.

This reminds me, must scan and post a diagram I did of being squashed against the wall when *someone* decides to stretch over half the bed.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Our girls are quite small but they can stretch out and take up the whole bed too. When it's hot, I can't stand them too close; I fell out one night this year when I rolled over too near the edge. :-P Haven't done that since I was a toddler.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

*Cackle*:)... yes, I can imagine that! Bloody Noki stretches over a metre when she wants to, and I'm only one and a half... o_O I'm packaging your wristwarmers as we speak, BTW. Neep.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Eee! [bouncing and grinning like Chiana] Off to work now.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Careful with that Chi imitation, you know I might just pounce you:D. I nearly pounced someone dressed as Chi at a con once, but held myself back. I heard Gigi Edgley squeaks and bounces and huggles anyone she sees in a Chi costume:D...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

No costume and the makeup looks scary, but hey, I can do the voice and the laugh!

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

*POUNCES OMG*

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

OOH! Kitties! EEEEE!! They're so sweet!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Aren't they! I'd love to hug them.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I'd like to make them little red saddles with numbers on them, and put plush monkeys on top and have cheetah races. :^)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

That's just bizarre.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

They have personalities like dogs, and they love to run, so I bet they'd enjoy it. Ok, leave off the monkeys, & it'd be just like greyhound racing, only faster. :^)